Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they have responded to the ruling of the Information Commissioner regarding the publication of statistics on deaths related to Employment and Support Allowance benefit; and when they intend to publish this data.

Lord Freud: The Department has lodged an appeal with the First Tier Tribunal against the Information Commissioner’s decision notice of 30 April 2015.The statistics the Department intend to publish will be pre-announced on the GOV.UK website.